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Twente-flavoured summer school in China

This summer, researcher Xiangqiong (Lydia) Zeng of the University of Twente will give lectures to about thirty mechanical engineering PhD and master's students of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China. She is using her method from the master track 'Surface Engineering for look & feel' that she gives to her Twente students. Zeng also talks about the possibilities offered to international students by the UT.

"Internationalization is very important for the UT and all universities. I would like to contribute to that and I'd also like to 'give back' to the academic community in China," Zeng explains. The university in Shanghai is one of the top 5 universities in China and has a good reputation internationally, especially in the field of mechanical engineering, which is Zeng's discipline.

Strong track record

The contribution to the summer school didn't just appear out of the blue. In the past few years Zeng has established close ties with one of the faculties of the SJTU and she puts a lot of energy into student exchange. Within her department she has already arranged three PhD positions. One PhD candidate has already completed his research. "Amongst Chinese academics there is a lot of interest to go abroad after their bachelor's or master's degree. I tell them about the research facilities of the UT and that we belong to the global best in certain fields of study. In addition, here they can independently work on technologies for social problems and they're allowed a lot of freedom while doing it. Up until now the responses have been very enthusiastic and I expect that my contribution to the summer school will be a success."
Zeng will give eight lectures lasting one morning or afternoon from 8 to 30 July. 

More information

Lydia Zeng has been appointed UTWIST Tenure track assistant professor at the UT. She obtained her doctoral degree in 2006 in the field of tribology and after that worked at Johnson & Johnson Consumer for five years on skin care technologies. In 2011 she joined the Surface Technology and Tribology department of Prof. Dik Schipper and the Skin Tribology chair of Prof. Emile van der Heide of the Faculty of Engineering Technology. Her research focuses on the role of friction in human-product interactions and on tribology of human tissue. Tribology is a discipline in mechanical engineering that researches the behaviour of contact surfaces, the objective being to predict the friction and wear behaviour of systems. To achieve this, the researchers in Twente are obtaining knowledge in the field of contact mechanics and boundary layers. This is done by a group of six scientific staff members and, currently, 27 PhD candidates. The group has a strong international quality.
Zeng's course is part of the Emerging Technology Design master's degree.

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